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The heavy odors of wild honeysuckle, syringa, and ceanothus that hung over it were lightened and freshened by the sharp spicing of pine and bay. The mountain breeze which sometimes shook the serrated tops of the large redwoods above with a chill from the remote snow peaks even in the heart of summer, never reached the little valley. It seemed an ideal place for a picnic.
And let's see Peter Piper himself would be coming soon, would he not, to teeter and picnic along some pleasant Brazilian shore? Perhaps Bob and Peter and the hummingbird, who had been summer neighbors in North America, would meet again now and then in that far south country. But I do not think they would know each other if they did.
Afterward they traced the stream down to a lovely glade a half mile above Millville, where Ethel informed them the annual Sunday-school picnic was always held, and then trailed across the rocky plateau to the farm. By the time they reached home their appetites were well sharpened for Mary's excellent luncheon, and the afternoon was devoted to rest under the shady pines that grew beside the house.
Why not ask some one to play about with her? I can't bear to see a Lonely at a picnic or to be interrupted myself!" "It might be judicious to invite Minerva!" agreed Darsie, twinkling, and alluding to the Don who enjoyed the privilege of Mrs Reeves's special friendship. "Two chaperons! What a character for propriety I shall gain, to be sure! They little know."
And, once, the smoke of a hunter's camp, away off in the distance, trailing among the trees. It was like a picnic, a grand picnic, and I could see my dreams coming true, and I was ready for something to happen 'most any time. And it did. "'And that first camp, on the island! And the boys spearing fish in the mouth of the creek, and the big deer one of the bucks shot just around the point.
Four men carry the corpse on two small poles, all the others fall in behind in column of twos and then they proceed to the graveyard, drinking their beverage and enjoying themselves. The crowd stays at the graveyard all day, and drink and carouse until they are well filled with liquor, and all get drunk. This is the program every time one of them is buried. It is a big picnic for them.
"Diogenes apparently had a good time, too," said Silvia, looking at the child, who was certainly a wreck in the way of garments. "What did you do all day, Rob?" "We went out on the water, played games, and had a picnic dinner outdoors." "You had huckleberry pie for one thing," she observed, with a glance at Diogenes' dress, "and jelly for another, and "
But it may be questioned whether art is the sole aim of the ecclesiastical picnic out of which decorations spring.
But I get that sort of stuff at home, and if I get it here I don't know what I'll do." "Oh, you're right, too," Robert muttered. "It's not my business." Cosgrave appealed sadly to Francey. "He's wild with me. But a picnic you'd think any human being might go on a picnic " "You're going," she answered quietly, "and Robert too." He did not take up the challenge. He was too miserable.
Oh, what a glorious time we'll have!" "Perhaps he would go with us," suggested Rod. "No, he couldn't leave the Post. If he went Wabi would have to stay." Rod was counting on his fingers. "That means six in our next expedition, Wabi, Mukoki, John Ball and myself, and you and Maballa. Why, it'll be a regular picnic party!" Minnetaki's eyes were brimming with fun.
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